Building to South of Lt Bensons Occupied by A R Caldwell and Co Ltd is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Office and workshop.

Building to South of Lt Bensons Occupied by A R Caldwell and Co Ltd

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1984
Type
Office and workshop
Address
Building to South of Lt Bensons Occupied by A R Caldwell and Co Ltd, High Street, Ongar
OS grid reference
TL 552 032
Coordinates
51.70613, 0.24505
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building, located to the south of Little Bensons and occupied by A.R. Caldwell and Co Ltd, is an office and workshop dating from the 19th century. It is primarily timber framed with vertical weatherboarding, while the front facing High Street is constructed of red brick. The building has grey slate roofs and features an L-shaped, single-storey brick front range with a one-to-one window arrangement, including segmental arch heads. To the left, there is a three-light casement window, and to the right, a small-paned casement window beneath a gauged brick arch, both with stone cills. The eaves are moulded brick, and there are pediment cornices with a decorative band and stops. A blank, moulded brick plaque is situated on the pediment, and there is a red brick chimney with pilasters and moulded capping and base.

At the rear, there is an attached two-storey building clad in vertical weatherboarding, featuring a hipped grey slate roof and a matching red brick chimney stack with pilasters. This section has six windows on the first floor and five on the ground floor, consisting of three or four-light casements with transoms. There are three boarded doors and one double door on this face, along with one boarded door on the front range. The building forms a group with the previously listed building and Little Bensons and was likely part of Ongar Academy.

Local climate

Building to South of Lt Bensons Occupied by A R Caldwell and Co Ltd sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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